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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.
The Chinese city of Dandong is cracking down on smuggling and other activity through which COVID-19 could enter from outside, municipal authorities have stated, amid apparent concerns that North Korea’s outbreak could spill over to the border city.
As Dandong deals with its own COVID-19 outbreak, the city government said in a press conference on Sunday that officials have had trouble breaking the chain of infections and finding a “clear epidemiological correlation” for positive cases.